[Hcoop-discuss] Colocation Plans and pricing structure

[Justin S. Leitgeb]

I think that it is important to collect funds for upgrades, both to 
address present needs and to ease growth in the future.  Recently, there 
has been some discussion in the group about deficiencies in the present 
architecture related to capacity and redundancy.  This has led us to 
look at different colocation providers, a project which is detailed on 
the wiki page at http://wiki.hcoop.net/wiki/ColocationPlans.  In the 
future, I anticipate that we will have other projects that we will need 
funds for, in order to achieve redundancy and increase capacity.  
Ideally, I'd like to see this included into a flat monthly fee as well 
to ease growth.

Justin

Josh Goldfoot wrote:

>I think including maintenance in the monthly fees makes lots of sense.  But can you explain more what you mean by funds for "upgrades?"  Do you mean adding capacity now that we hope to be able to sell to new members later?  Or is there some current need of existing members that's going unmet?
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>----- Original Message ----
>From: Justin S. Leitgeb <leitgebj at hcoop.net>
>To: "hcoop-discuss at hcoop.net" <hcoop-discuss at hcoop.net>
>Sent: Friday, May 5, 2006 3:06:36 PM
>Subject: [Hcoop-discuss] Colocation Plans and pricing structure
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>
>Hi All,
>
>I just wanted to let everyone know that all of the information that we 
>have gathered from potential hosting providers is available on the 
>wiki.  At this stage I guess that we're ready to evaluate this 
>information and make a decision about the best provider for our needs 
>and financial constraints.
>
>Speaking of our financial constraints, I was also wondering how members 
>felt about moving towards a flat-rate pricing structure that included 
>funds for maintenance and upgrades.  I know that there was some interest 
>in this in the past, and I have heard some members saying that would be 
>a more maintainable and simpler system than what we are doing 
>currently.  I'm also interested in seeing Hcoop, Inc. keep funds set 
>aside for expansion and emergency repairs, etc. as a safety net.
>
>So, I would appreciate any feedback, both about the colocation plans 
>that we've been offered, as well as thoughts about how or when we could 
>change the pricing structure of Hcoop to something that could be more 
>maintainable and allow us to scale our systems with an increasing number 
>of members.
>
>Thanks!
>
>Justin
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